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MUMBAI: Biocon chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has succeeded RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani as chairperson of the IIM Bangalore board of governors, said a statement issued by the institute on Tuesday. With this, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw becomes the first woman chairperson of any IIM board in the country. According to the IIM-B statement, at a meeting of the institute's board of governors on February 11, Mukesh Ambani informed the board about his decision to step down.

NEW DELHI: Government has set the ball rolling for appointment of chairperson and eight members of Lokpal by inviting applications for the posts. It has also decided to expedite passage of four pending anti-corruption legislations in Parliament as part of the resolve to give the nation an effective anti-corruption framework, the Ministry of Personnel today said. Out of eight members in the Lokpal, four posts are of judicial members and rest are for non-judicial ones. Fifty per cent of members of Lok Pal shall be from amongst Scheduled Caste (SC)

NEW DELHI: Centre today invited applications for appointment to the post of chairperson and members of the anti-graft watchdog, Lokpal. "Government has invited applications for filing up a post of chairperson and eight posts of members of Lokpal. Four posts are reserved for judicial members," a senior official in the Ministry of Personnel said. A letter seeking nominations of eligible officers has been sent to the Registrars of Supreme Court and the high courts. "Centre has also written to the Chief Secretaries of state governments," he added.

NEW DELHI: The chairperson of the appellate tribunal for the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) will receive a fixed monthly pay of Rs 90,000 apart from other allowances. Decisions made by NCLT, which would replace the Company Law Board, can be appealed before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). NCLT and NCLAT are being envisaged under the new Companies Act, which is being implemented by the Corporate Affairs Ministry. The chairperson "shall be entitled to a monthly pay of Rs 90,000 (fixed)

NEW DELHI: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take necessary steps to stop the "witch-hunt" against Justice (retd) AK Ganguly in the case of his alleged sexual harassment of a law intern. In a letter to Singh, he said there has to be an impartial investigation to determine the truth as to what happened in the "media-driven episode of a former intern alleging 'unwelcome' behaviour" by the former Supreme Court judge. Swamy said it was "extremely important at this juncture to get an investigation completed before any precipitate action is taken merely to make out Justice Ganguly guilty without an opportunity of being heard".

NEW DELHI: Stating that the death penalty was "uncivilised", National Commission for Minorities Chairperson, Wajahat Habibullah , has said that the law should not succumb to public opinion as such a situation would be fraught with danger. Referring to the SC verdict upholding the capital punishment to Afzal Guru , Habibullah asserted that the death penalty had "no place in modern society". Addressing a seminar on 'Capital Punishment in Asia', held by the OP Jindal Global University here, Habibullah said, "It (death penalty)

AHMEDABAD: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today wished UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on her birthday and prayed for her healthy life. "Wishing UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on her birthday. I pray for her long and healthy life," Modi tweeted on micro-blogging site Twitter. Congress President Sonia Gandhi turned 67 today, but there were no celebrations in view of the demise of former South African president Nelson Mandela. The country is observing a five-day state mourning since Friday last as a mark of respect to the late South African leader.

KOLKATA: West Bengal Law minister Chandrima Bhattacharya today said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already set the ball rolling for the removal of Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly as the chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission by writing to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking "appropriate action". "The Chief Minister has set the ball rolling for Ganguly's removal from the WBHRC chairman's post by writing to the President seeking appropriate action... Now it's in the President's domain," state law minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said today.

RAEBARELI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today inaugurated several roads in her parliamentary constituency Raebareli, where she will also launch a host of projects, including a railway line. Gandhi, who reached here this morning, inaugurated and laid foundation of over 50 roads constructed under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna ( PMGSY ) connecting various villages of her constituency. She also inaugurated a water treatment plant at Saraimugla. During the visit, she would lay the foundation of a new railway line -- Raebareli- Maharajganj-Akbarganj.

NEW DELHI: The government has started the search for a successor to Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Chairman, the post of which fell vacant following the resignation of Yogesh Agarwal . The tenure of the chairperson would be for five years or till the selected candidate attains the age of 65 years, the Finance Ministry said while inviting applications for the post. The pay and allowance of the new chairperson will be Rs 4.5 lakh per month without the facility of accommodation and car. The last date for applying for the post is December 27. At present, Joint Secretary in the Finance Ministry Anup Wadhawan is acting as the interim Chairman of the PFRDA.